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The Goldfarb Center brings prominent speakers from around the world to Colby' campus. Here is what they had to say.
 
Young Teachers as Leaders in Urban School Reform

Blogs

12/06/2011
Barbara Spangle | Audio
Teach Plus Boston Executive Director and former Boston Public Schools teacher Maria Fenwick (Colby '03) speaks about... Read more »

Colby Volunteer Center Panel: Realities of Youth Homelessness in Maine

Blogs

11/18/2011
Barbara Spangle | Audio
Throughout the month of November, the Colby Volunteer Center (CVC) is organizing a series of events to help increase... Read more »

William R. and Linda K. Cotter Debate: Foreign Aid and the Environment

Blogs

11/11/2011
Barbara Spangle | Audio
Nigel Purvis, President of Climate Advisers and Nonresident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution, and James... Read more »

Poverty in America: An Economic Human Rights Perspective

Blogs

11/10/2011
Barbara Spangle | Audio
In the U.S. today, 44 million people -- about one out of every seven Americans -- live in poverty. How can this happen... Read more »

 

The U.S. Role in Afghanistan - Now and Going Forward: An Intelligence Analyst's View

Blogs

11/08/2011
Barbara Spangle | Audio
Lt. Melissa Maclin '98, U.S. Naval Intelligence, last spoke to a Colby audience nearly five years ago, when U.S. forces... Read more »

A Conversation with the Governor of Maine

Blogs

11/04/2011
Barbara Spangle | Audio
On January 5, 2011, Paul LePage was sworn in as the 74th governor of the State of Maine, the first Franco-American to... Read more »

The Supreme Court and Civil Rights: A Promise Unfulfilled?

Blogs

11/02/2011
Barbara Spangle | Audio
Nancy Gertner, winner of the Morton A. Brody Award for Distinguished Judicial Service in 2010, recently left the United... Read more »

Six Minutes To Doomsday: Assessing the State of the Nuclear Threat

Blogs

11/02/2011
Barbara Spangle | Audio
Since 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has monitored "how close humanity is to catastrophic destruction,"... Read more »

 

Oak Lecture: One Illness Away - Global Poverty and Human Rights

Blogs

10/27/2011
Barbara Spangle | Audio
How do people people "fall" into poverty, and how do they manage to escape what seems, to some, like their... Read more »

Waterville Mayoral Debate

Blogs

10/26/2011
Barbara Spangle | Audio
The three candidates for mayor of the City of Waterville - Karen Heck (Unenrolled), Andy Roy (Republican), and Dana... Read more »

Reflections on the Arab Spring

Blogs

10/20/2011
Barbara Spangle | Audio
As part of the Lovejoy Convocation events honoring NPR's Foreign Correspondent Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, a panel... Read more »

2011 Oak Fellow Lecture: Untouchability and Human Rights - Fighting Poverty and the Caste System in India

Blogs

9/22/2011
Barbara Spangle | Audio
India's caste system was officially "eradicated" in 1950, and yet it continues to undermine the economic well-being and... Read more »

 

 

 

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